On Wednesday, a mostly peaceful protest in Washington, D.C. was marred when a group of protesters besieged a nearby building, bursting in and creating chaos, scattering papers and committing a few petty thefts. It was violent, but we should all remember that “violence is the voice of the voiceless.” They have now gone, but these sorts of protests will continue. And they should continue.
Yep, that would have been the story had the attack happened in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Milwaukee or any of a number of other American cities instead of Washington D.C., and had the building been occupied by private businesses instead of by Congress. We know that because we’ve seen it repeated ad nauseum over the past eight months.
But this time it wasn’t private businesses somewhere in the hinterland owned by people just trying to make a living. It was the Capitol and it was occupied by Senators and Congresspersons, so it was insurrection. It was an assault on Democracy! It was an affront to civilization! It was treason! Oh, the humanity!
What rot.
Every riot involving the destruction of private property to achieve a political end, whether in Washington, D.C. or Tacoma, Washington, is a criminal act by nihilistic thugs. But when supposedly “Progressive” politicians extol the latter with the language in the opening paragraph – and they did, every time – we shouldn’t take their present hyperventilating about threats to the Republic very seriously.
Although it does make something very, very clear: mobs of lawless vandals may attack businesses owned by everyday Americans at will, if they embrace the latest convenient anti-American shibboleth of the Left. But when the same happens to their place of business, well… That’s just beyond the pale. It’s an outrage! It’s a betrayal of America!!
No. What’s beyond the pale is their hypocrisy, their shameless opportunism, their utter disdain for the travails their fashionable revolutionism causes everyday Americans, who they clearly despise.
Here’s back at you. May you choke on it.